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Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities
Ali Kazim
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Description for Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities
hardcover. Eloquent intercultural coming-of-age story Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
This groundbreaking, transgenre work-part detective story, part literary memoir, part imagined past-is intensely autobiographical and confessional. Proceeding sentence by sentence, city by city, and backwards in time, poet and essayist Kazim Ali details the struggle of coming of age between cultures, overcoming personal and family strictures to talk about private affairs and secrets long held. The text is comprised of sentences that alternate in time, ranging from discursive essay to memoir to prose poetry. Art, history, politics, geography, love, sexuality, writing, and religion, and the role silence plays in each, are its interwoven themes. Bright Felon is literally "autobiography" because ... Read more
This groundbreaking, transgenre work-part detective story, part literary memoir, part imagined past-is intensely autobiographical and confessional. Proceeding sentence by sentence, city by city, and backwards in time, poet and essayist Kazim Ali details the struggle of coming of age between cultures, overcoming personal and family strictures to talk about private affairs and secrets long held. The text is comprised of sentences that alternate in time, ranging from discursive essay to memoir to prose poetry. Art, history, politics, geography, love, sexuality, writing, and religion, and the role silence plays in each, are its interwoven themes. Bright Felon is literally "autobiography" because ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Wesleyan United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819569165
SKU
V9780819569165
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About Ali Kazim
KAZIM ALI is a poet, essayist, novelist, and translator.
Reviews for Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities
"Bright Felon will steal your heart and outrage your poetics. Part memoir, part trip book, part literary discourse, there is in it an urgent sense of a life lived in words. Rigorous, romantic, experimental, true, and yet mysterious, it is a book for the ages." LAURA MORIARTY, author of A Semblance: Selected and New Poems, 1975-2007"